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A Painter's Progress; Being a Partial Survey Along the Pathway of Art in America and Europe with Sundry Examples and Precepts Culled from Personal Encounter with Existing Conditions and Reference to the Careers of Many Artists Both Ancient and Mode

A Painter's Progress; Being a Partial Survey Along the Pathway of Art in America and Europe with Sundry Examples and Precepts Culled from Personal Encounter with Existing Conditions and Reference to the Careers of Many Artists Both Ancient and Mode


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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... VI OUR PRESENT AND OUR FUTURE When the White City was built in 1893 art assumed a definite place in our national life. Then for the first time we awoke to a realisation that art of the people, by the people, for the people had come to us. It came to this New World of ours in the old historic way. From the seed sown in the Orient, through Greece, through Italy from Byzantium, wafted ever westward, its timid flowering from our Atlantic seaboard had been carried a thousand miles inland to find its first full eclosion; not as a single growth, but as the triple flower of architecture, painting, and sculpture. And, as always, it fulfilled its mission of mind over matter. It was a foregone conclusion that the Columbian Exposition would show triumphantly our material power, would demonstrate the potentiality of our commerce, our agriculture, and our mechanical arts. Nor in the event were these lacking, but the millions who came to the exposition carried away as the one chief impression, as its most potent appeal, that of the triumph of art. From that day art has carried a new message to our people; since that day it has stood erect, has added to its stature, and now, still in its youth, it takes its place, a younger brother, but counting with its elders in the family of the art of the world. Those who had watched the development of our art effort with jealous eye had already seen, at the Paris Exposition of 1889, that the progress for which all had hoped, and for which some had worked, was marked, and then and there our foreign critics had acknowledged the promise of our art. But it was in Chicago, in 1893, that there was gathered for the first time a larger and more comprehensive exhibit of our painting and sculpture, and there, in frank comparison with typical collect...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217094368
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 46
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217094368
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 100 gr


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